Round 8: Brian Davis vs. Terry Tsang

Rui Oliveira

These two have had a great weekend so far, ending the first day with eighteen points. They sat down still discussing the picks at the top draft table. Apart from a few jokes about how lucky Kai Budde is, the main story seemed to be how bad Terry thought his deck was.

Game 1

The game started slowly with Tsang dropping a turn three Stern Judge and Davis Predicting himself before dropping Shadowmage Infiltrator. Although Jon Finkel himself didn't make day two his name is still here in the Feature Match area in the shape of Odyssey's best cards.

Terry: "That is not a bad card." Brain: "You're right."

The American followed that up with Crypt Creeper while Tsang used his Bomb Squad to get some counters on Finkel. A Crackling Club took out the Creeper and Tsang played his second Judge.

Finkel kept Brian's hand full but he couldn't find the tools to control the table. Aether Burst took the Squad out of the game for a while buying him some extra time to dig out a permanent answer.

While he couldn't keep the returned Squad from killing his Finkel he now had Aven Windreader to stop the Judge duo and balance things out. But the Canadian had other plans.

He dropped Divine Sacrament, pumping his Judges, and sending both in. The Windreader traded with one and Davis dropped down to six. The American tried to pump out blockers but the Squad made sure Tsang's creatures faced as little opposition as possible.

A couple of turns later Davis laid out his hand full of lands and conceded.

Game 2

This time Davis had a better start, with Obsessive Search and Crypt Creeper while Tsang was still laying land. While the Canadian played "Draw, drop land, go" Davis played a Predict and Terry decided it was high time to get rid of the Creeper with Flameburst.